An academic article (in Hebrew) discussing the identity of the Philistine god Dagon. It concludes that Dagon (the name related to the Hebrew for grain, dagan, rather then the Hebrew for fish dag – or nun, in Aramaic) was probably a version of the Aegean-Anatolian fertility mother goddess, Cybele.
In others words (for players of Call of Cthulhu, Dagon is really Shub-Niggurath…
Looking for blogs run by roleplayers, I bumped into this one which has an interesting post on a topic that’s troubling me vis my ongoing campaign: What does it take to have Successful NPCs.
Association @lyon : Banque d’affiches de films is a french site featuring lots of movie posters.
Everyone’s blogging this, so why don’t I?
What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?
(For those of you who don’t want to go through the NY Times’ free registration – which is worth it, IMO – you can see what everyone else in blogdom is posting about this).
Did I ever blog The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards? Because it’s a wonderful resource. Especially when you’re wondering, for example What awards the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ever won? (which I am, because we bought Israeli reprint rights for F&SF for the Tenth Dimension.